I've recently started collecting music in WMA format. However I don't like the filename format and need a tag editor / renamer that handles WMA. Actually, WinAmp edits the tags fine so I really only need a renamer. I found one called 'The Rename' but it can't seem to find the 'Album Name' field in newer WMA versions. There are plenty of good free MP3 renamers, but most don't do WMA, so please don't recommend an MP3 tag tool unless you know for sure it works with WMA too. TIA. :flower:

I don't know about changing the WMA equivelent of "id3 tag" information, but renaming the entire file is considerably more simple.

You can do it in widows or you can use a file management program to do your renaming.

Personally I use an old file management program calles Z-Tree to do my renaming and to create folders.

There is the name of a program that will rename WMA files, but the name is just out of reach mentally...

You ever have one of those thoughts you can just "touch with the fingertip", but can't "get a grip on"?

I sure that Windows Media Player will edit the metadata(tag) for a WMA audio file, atleast the simple things like title, album artist, track #, etc.

From past experience with WMP I'll point out one glitch that WMP has if used that way.

Just make sure that you aren't actually playing any of the tracksthat you are using WMP to edit the meta data of.

WMP doesn't inform you of any "file sharing errors"it simple pretends to make the change but doesn't do it.

So if one of the tracks you want to edit meta data onhas been played in that session (Played, played and paused or stopped) you need to play another song from(atleast momentarily) to clear the file sharing conflict

Because until you play another file WMP will see the last file has been played as "in use" (even though WMP was the program using it:)

that's seventy four characters & spaces before the "dot" & three character file extension and to be specific that's the exact file name that nearly made me "Go postal" about the whole "Artist - Album Title - Track Title.mp3" file naming scheme.

stop the madness...

folder\subfolder\file name.mp3Artist\album rack title.mp3

It may be simple and stupidbut it's also simple stupid and it WORKS.and in the greater scheme of things "works" is all that really matters.

I just keep all my music in one or two folders. Hence the Title - Artist - Album.ext format. To me it's lot's simpler to let WinAmp sort it into Albums or Artists or Titles or Year or any other way I feel like sorting it at the moment.

I save mine the way I do because it's much easier to find anything when I want to burn it t a disc for mobile use

I use seperate software to do each part of the operationbecause I've yet to find anything that does ALL the jobs well So I use whatever software does each job "best" for each operation and then IGNORE any other capabilities of that software.

EAC to ripSwitch Sound to convert/compressTagScanner to edit tagsWMP for home playbackZ-Tree for file management (Duplication & Movement of files, creation of directory structure, etc)Roxio to burn mp3 to optical discsEAC to burn any CDA discs.

The main thing is I do my extraction and "processing" production line style in batches, usually ten CD's at a time,because that's how many I can race through in an hour or hour and a quarter.